The Wizard’s Fairy Tale

late at night.

The royal capital, which had been noisy all day, fell into sleep.

The whole city was quiet.

Occasionally, there were a few sounds of dogs barking and cats barking, but they were quickly covered by silence.

The roulette-like moon hangs in the dark sky, casting silver-gray light on the majestic Mobiza Palace.

The Mobiza Palace in the dark is like an old man, very quiet.

Only in some places, there are still lights on.

From time to time, fully armed soldiers patrolled past.

William, wearing a wishful cloak, wandered around the palace like a ghost.

None of the soldiers could spot a second-level wizard.

William easily arrived at the heart of the palace - the bedroom of the old King Philip.

This is a luxurious room.

The entire bedroom is resplendent and magnificent, symbolizing the luxury and wealth of the Catellania royal family.

Although the Svakian kingdom is an inland kingdom, there are many gold mines in the territory. The Ketrania royal family owns the most and the best gold mines in the country, so the wealth status has always been very good.

The ceiling of the bedroom is painted with exquisite murals, and the corners and eaves are decorated with gilded reliefs, which complement the murals.

In the center of the room, there is a large curtained bed, which was the imperial couch of the old king Philip.

He just sat there in silence.

At this time, the old king Philip did not wear his crown of jewels that symbolized the rights of a country, nor did he wear his king's dress with complicated patterns, and he lost the majesty of the day.

Now he is just a frail old man in silky pajamas, with bags under his eyes like dark circles, and his face is pale.

His brows were deeply furrowed, with hesitation in his eyes.

I don't know how long he was silent, but he seemed to have made a decision. He suddenly stood up from the big curtained bed, dragged his long nightgown, and walked to a corner of the bedroom.

I don't know what happened to the relief on the wall in the corner. I only saw that the mechanism was touched, and a large cellar entrance was revealed silently on the dark red floor.

Old King Philip looked familiar, he touched an iron ring on his right ring finger, and then walked in resolutely.

There are stone stairs in the cellar.

As soon as the old King Philip walked in, the bronze torches hung on the walls on both sides burned automatically, illuminating the cellar.

At this time, what appeared in the eyes of the old king Philip was a long stone ladder extending downwards, extending a distance of nearly a hundred meters, and then an obsidian gate engraved with mysterious magic lines.

a few minutes.

The old king Philip just walked this distance and came to the obsidian gate.

He took out a small silver knife from his pocket and cut his palm, red blood flowed out.

The old king was also born in the army back then, and without frowning, he dripped blood on the magic pattern of the obsidian gate.

Immediately, the magic lines on the obsidian gate lit up one after another like energized light bulbs, exuding light of different colors, and flowing like mercury. After a short time, they combined into one The mysterious six-pointed star circle.

At this time, the iron ring on the ring finger of the old king also lit up, and a ray of light shot out, hitting the center of the hexagram circle, the dazzling light burst out suddenly, making the old king who was prepared close his eyes uncontrollably. eyes.

When the light faded away, a doorway made of light appeared on the obsidian gate.

Without any hesitation, the old king walked in towards the light opening, and his figure disappeared into the light opening immediately.

William's figure just walked out of the mirror space, looking at the light hole with thoughtful eyes.

"This formation definitely has the intervention of wizards."

"It's no wonder that during the day, when the magic mirror probed the palace, it didn't discover this. It turned out to be hidden by the magic circle."

"Hehehe, these royal families say that one is more devout to the Lord of the Holy Light than the other, but in fact they all have their own little ones.

"

The corner of William's mouth curled up, and he followed into the light hole.

This is a grand hall with many columns erected. The ceiling and surrounding walls of the hall are covered with reliefs, forming a series of story patterns.

The most frequent of these patterns is a winged sphinx.

And in the center of the hall, on a stone platform, lay half a monster's corpse.

Looking carefully, isn't this half of the monster's body the same as the sphinx monster that appeared in the pattern?

It just seemed to be split in half by something, the moisture in the corpse evaporated, the skin stuck to the bones, like a mummy, only its only remaining wing was full of vitality.

There seems to be a little brilliance on the dark brown feathers, shining sparks of wisdom, but if you look closely, it doesn't seem to be there.

The whole body exudes a sacred and inviolable majesty.

This feeling can be felt even if William is hiding in the mirror space, and it reminds William of some pictures in his memory.

To be precise, it is some pictures in the memory of Asclepius, the god of medicine.

This is divine power.

This is a beast.

Sphinx!

William remembered that this was the Sphinx in mythology.

In Greek mythology, the Queen of Heaven, Herapaisphinx, sat on a cliff near the city of Thebes, stopped passers-by, and asked them riddles taught by the Muses, and those who could not guess correctly would be eaten by it.

The riddle is: "What animal walks on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs at night? The time when it has the most legs is also the time when it walks the slowest and its strength is weakest."

Many people couldn't figure it out, so they were killed by the Sphinx.

Only Oedipus guessed the correct answer, the answer is "man".

Sphinx was so ashamed that he jumped off the cliff and died!

But there are rumors that the Sphinx did not die of shame, but was killed by Oedipus.

How he died, William didn't know.

However, William knew that the Sphinx was born of the violent goddess Echidna and her son, the two-headed dog Otto Hughes. His human face symbolizes wisdom and knowledge.

Ekadna's upper body is a nymph with squinting eyes and white cheeks, and her lower body is a big snake. Maybe many people don't know about her, but when it comes to the children born by her, they are no strangers.

Cerberus, the three-headed dog of hell, Hydra, the hydra of Lerna, Chimera with the head of a lion and the body of a sheep, the invulnerable Nemean lion, Radon, a hundred-headed dragon, the two-headed dog guarding the island of sunset, The Colchis dragon guarding the golden fleece, the Temesus fox of Tomesa, the Caucasian condor pecking at Prometheus, the harpy Harpy...

These are the most famous monsters in Greek mythology, and they can be said to be the mother of monsters.

Please remember the first domain name of this book: . Ghost blowing lamp mobile version reading URL: